Examples of dismissed

• The M.P.'s speech was dismissed by her opponents as crude electioneering.

• The call for a one-day national strike was dismissed as gesture politics.

• The prime minister's proposal was immediately dismissed as a back door tax increase.

• Rumours that they are about to marry have been dismissed as pure speculation.

• He dismissed Bryan as nothing more than an amateur.

• They are central to who we are, and cannot simply be dismissed, decried, or ignored.

• To better understand how rock critics frame their evaluations we can look at the critical discourse surrounding artists who are critically dismissed.

• Surprised by disappointing turnouts, each rebel leader dismissed his followers homeward by dawn.

• Imitation has tended to be dismissed as a rather low-grade activity having, almost by definition, no innovative content, but this is wrong.

• Unfortunately all are dismissed in a couple of paragraphs.

• They tend to be dismissed by the biologists.

• At first some actually dismissed the speech as intended only for foreign consumption.

• In other words, the complaint was dismissed because it was prematurely lodged.

• It takes seriously evidence that is often dismissed as epiphenomenal by "materialist" scholars.

• Because they do not fit the traditional model and no new model has been introduced, they tend to be dismissed as exceptions.

• He dismissed the notion that women cannot effect change in men's character.

• His non-social behaviour could be dismissed simply as symptoms of the disease.

• Some simply dismissed such terms as meaningless and irrelevant.

• Despite my reservations, this volume should not be immediately dismissed.

• Indeed, voice experience should not be ' dismissed ' as symptoms of the illness, for which drugs alone can be used.